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At a glance
Snap is hiring a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer in Los Angeles, CA; Palo Alto, CA. It is a full-time role in Data, AI & Analytics, asking for at least 5 years of experience, first listed on November 11. The advertised pay is $130,000–$196,000 a year. The description mentions SQL, Python and Agile. Snap has 99 other openings in the US, 85 of them in Los Angeles, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 45 Data & AI openings in Los Angeles, CA today; the typical one asks for 8 years and advertises about $216,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Snap advertises $130,000 to $196,000 a year, a midpoint of $163,000 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 87% of the 548 data & AI jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $230,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Snap
Snap has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 7 states. Most are in software & IT (41), data & AI (10) and marketing (10). The biggest locations are Los Angeles, CA (86), Palo Alto, CA (53) and New York, NY (50). None of them is fully remote, 3% are open to entry-level candidates and 100% show pay. We collect Snap's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
Snapchat is a camera and messaging app that connects people to their friends and the world. Every day around the globe, millions of people use Snapchat to communicate with friends, build relationships, play, and learn. No matter where you are or how you express yourself, it’s always the fastest way to share a moment!
We’re looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, SMC to join Team Snapchat!
What you’ll do:
- Understanding challenges the business faces and helping them to make decisions based on data driven insights by collating and analyzing information from multiple sources and a logical and coherent story.
- Understand the business challenges and needs to help leadership make data driven decisions by analyzing and combining data across multiple sources.
- Identify performance trends across auction campaigns to fuel optimization recommendations; evangelize best practices across the account management group
- Use data and logic to impact client and business success by providing analysis, insights, reports and actionable recommendations
- Partner with cross-functional teams to build out measurement agendas/strategies, provide data based insights for products in alpha or beta, and deliver feedback on data tools in development.
- Distill complicated analytical concepts for broader audiences and be able to influence their decision making through a data story
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports to help the business understand and optimize advertiser performance and product development through a client-centric lens.
- Proactively identify projects that impact revenue, defines scope and objectives, and proposes a course of action required to attain objectives
- Work with Account Management to provide real time analysis for auction campaigns; influence incremental spend through data driven upsell recommendations
- Function as a thought leader, offering insights related to vertical or category industry trends in order to inform or strengthen Snap’s in-market pitch.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/economics/mathematics or equivalent preferred
- 5+ years experience in quantitative analysis and research
- Proficiency in SQL and python/R for analysis and data visualization
Preferred qualifications:
- Data driven and analytical mindset
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work in an agile, dynamic environment
- Ability to work individually while operating as a collaborative team player
- Able to grasp business problems and design technical data-based solutions that are implementable, efficient and scalable
- Experience in performing analysis on big data sets and coming up with actionable insights
- Comfortable in interpreting complex data signals and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please provide us some information.
"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.
At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).
Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
Compensation
In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position.These pay zones may be modified in the future.
The base salary range for this position is $130,000-$196,000 annually.The base salary range for this position is $124,000-$186,000 annually.The base salary range for this position is $111,000-$167,000 annually.This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.If you believe this job description is missing required pay transparency information, please submit a report through this form:Job Description Pay Range Disclosure.
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